Beyond Sambadrome: Carnival around the world, and in our backyard
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A member of Unidos do Peruche samba school parades at the Sambadrome, as part of carnival celebrations, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, late February 20, 2009. (MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images, via www.boston.com)
Virtual Carnival Cruise
Fat Tuesday is bearing down on us, and this boston.com roundup of Carnival festivities from around the globe was just too jaw-dropping not to share. Most of the photos were snapped in Brazil (natch), but this collection includes shots taken in such far-flung locales as the Canary Islands, Italy, France, Hungary, Germany, Haiti, and Colombia.
Enter the Sambadrome, if you dare:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/carnival.html
Mardi Hearty
On the more provincial side, here’s a quick rundown of various Mardi Gras-related festivities happening in our neck of the woods (for this humble blogger, that’d be Boston).
BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO
Zydeco music | Showcase Live, Foxboro | Tue.2.24 @ 3 pm | $25-$50 | showcaselive.com
MARDI GRAS MADNESS
R&B with Soul City | Dick’s Last Resort, Boston | Tue.2.24 @ 5 pm | free | dickslastresort.com
FAT TUESDAY
Special Cajun menu and blues with the Gumbo Kings | Smoken’ Joe’s BBQ, Brighton | Tue.2.24 @ 6 pm | free | smokenjoesbbq.com
MARDIS GRAS PARTY
Jazz and R&B with Henri Smith’s New Orleans Friends & Flavours | Middle East downstairs, Cambridge | Tue.2.24 @ 9 pm | $5 | mideastclub.com
BEAUSOLEIL
Cajun music | Regattabar, Cambridge | Thu.2.26 @ 7:30 + 10 pm | $25 | regattabarjazz.com
VOODOO MARDI GRAS
Live percussion and mashups with DJs AA and Franklin | Underbar, Boston | Fri.2.27 @ 11 pm | free before midnight | underbaronline.com
Bonus tangentially Mardi Gras-themed joke:
Q: What’s the loneliest place in Louisiana?
A: Bayou Self.
